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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100062806 | APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATIONAL ENVIRONMENT TO BE CONNECTED WITH A MOBILE PHONE AND METHOD USING THE SAME The present invention relates to a communicational environment establishing apparatus to be connected to a mobile phone with integrated interfacing information built therein and a method for establishing an optimized communicational environment, when coupled to the mobi... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100048245 | Communications System, Intermediate Element for a Communications System, and Method for Establishing a Communications Link An intermediate element for a communications system is described that has at least one communications module (131) and at least one contact mechanism (134) that is independent in form in relation to the components (12) to be contacted with the conta... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100048246 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND AUDIO SWITCHING METHOD The invention includes a mobile communication apparatus and an audio switching method. The mobile communication apparatus according to the invention includes a receiver, a speaker, an optoelectronic sensing component, and a control unit. The optoelectronic sensing compo... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100042671 | SERVER EMBEDDED IN DEVICE CHARGING CRADLE A charging cradle having an embedded server, wherein the server software is a ubiquitous and integral part of the charging cradle. Additionally, the server enables monitoring of an enterprise mobile device for battery level and availability, and can push software/firmwa... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100041436 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF A mobile communication device capable of communicating with a remote communication device includes a communication unit, a microphone, an input unit, a control unit, and a switching unit. The communication unit is used for generating a remote audio signal according to r... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100035649 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH DETACHABLE KEYPAD MODULE A portable electronic device includes a first housing, a latching mechanism, and a keypad module. The keypad module can be removed from the electronic device without having to take apart the electronic device.... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100022268 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE COMPRISING A TOP-MOUNTED AUXILIARY INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE AND A BOTTOM-MOUNTED ANTENNA A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing having an upper portion and a lower portion, a dielectric substrate carried by the housing, circuitry carried by the dielectric substrate, and an audio output transducer carried by the upper portion of the ho... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100016019 | Communication and Operation Using Wireless Peripherals Communication with a wireless peripheral is carried out by communicating with the peripheral and taking at least one action to warn and/or prevent the user from moving during a time that they are using the peripheral.... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100009630 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CHARACTERS ON A BLUETOOTH DEVICE A system and method for displaying characters on a BLUETOOTH device using a mobile electronic device obtains a telephone number of an incoming call, and converts associated one or more characters into a bitmap picture in response to a determination that the telephone nu... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100009715 | Aided Ear Bud A hearing aid device is configured to operate as an ear bud device for a wireless phone. The hearing aid device functions in a manner similar to a conventional hearing aid device in a first operational state. The operational state of the hearing aid device is changed to... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090315703 | PHYSICAL SECURITY DEVICE A security device paired with a user's cell phone is operable by either a trigger or an accelerometer. The device includes visual and audio alarms, a prerecorded message and an audio recording of the ambient noise. Depression of the trigger will spray mace onto an attac... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090298540 | ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION CARD An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electronic t... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090298542 | CELL PHONE MUTLIMEDIA BROADCAST SOFTWARE, METHODS AND RECEIVING EQUIPMENT Preferred embodiments enable cell phone users to plug in a novel SIM card and receive a multimedia broadcast of their choice, television, celebrity broadcast calls, newspapers, games, video and the like, without initializing with a service provider. Adapters can provide... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090291635 | RADIO-FREQUENCY COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD The invention relates to a radio-frequency communication device comprising an inductive antenna in order to communicate with a transponder. According to the invention, the antenna is capable of establishing weak coupling with a transmitter which produces a magnetic fiel... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090286572 | Interactive Systems and Methods Employing Wireless Mobile Devices A user gestures with a wireless mobile phone device to control some aspect of its operation, or the operation of a remote system with which the device communicates. (The gestures may be sensed by tracking movement of a feature across a field of view of a mobile phone de... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090280863 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MENU ON THE SAME A mobile terminal configured to couple with a user-removable interface module includes a connector configured to couple or otherwise contact the removable interface module, a controller configured to determine whether a coupling exists between the mobile terminal and th... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090280864 | CONTROL OF A DEVICE A method is provided of enabling a function(s) of a telephone to be controlled. The telephone is operative to perform the function(s) in response to command(s) from a printer. The method includes providing a control interface which contains information relating to the f... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090275318 | Method and apparatus for transferring data between mobile telephones and other digital devices The method and apparatus of the present invention provide a means for users to transfer the data contents of a cell phone memory to a PC. The apparatus of the present invention comprises a low complexity digital device having two I/O (Input/Output) connectors, one for t... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090264153 | WIRELESS ENABLED MEMORY MODULE A wireless-enabled memory module provides host devices access to a memory via a standard memory expansion interface and further incorporates embedded processing capability and a wireless network capability. The wireless-enabled memory module can be used in any host devi... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090264152 | ROTATABLE MODULE WITH TWO INPUT DEVICES FOR A MOBILE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS A portable electronic device (1) comprising a first portion (3, 53) including at least one output device (2) for rendering output data and a second portion (4, 54) comprising at least two input devices (10, 11, 20, 30, 40) for manually... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090264154 | HANDHELD COMPUTING UNIT WITH POWER MANAGEMENT A handheld computing unit includes a plurality of PHY units, a local wireless interface (LWI), and a processing module. When the unit is in a femtocell AP mode, the processing module performs one or more femtocell AP functions to facilitate conversion of a LWI downstrea... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090258678 | System and method for storing and retrieving multimedia messages on low-cost tags in order to facilitate contextual communications Systems, methods and computer program products for storing and retrieving of multimedia messages onto tags in order to facilitate contextual communications are disclosed. Such tags can be attached or affixed to physical, real-world objects thus allowing multimedia messa... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090258679 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING TRANSMISSION SPEED OF A MOBILE PHONE A transmission speed enhancing apparatus of a mobile phone is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a processor having a secure digital input/output (SDIO) interface and a GPIO interface, a WiFi module and a secure digital memory A SDIO switcher is configured for disconnec... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090247173 | CHANNEL FREQUENCY REUSE FOR NARROW BEAM VIDEO STREAMING BASED UPON MOBILE TERMINAL LOCATION INFORMATION Transmitting streamed video to at least one wireless terminal by a wireless network having a channel frequency reuse pattern. The wireless network receives a request for the streamed video from the at least one wireless terminal and receives position information from th... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090247222 | Method And System For Providing A User Interface That Enables Control Of A Device Via Respiratory And/Or Tactual Input A method and system are provided for a user interface that enables control of a device via respiratory and/or tactual input. A mobile device comprising a graphical user interface may receive data from a second device and/or locally from within the mobile device. The dat... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090247224 | Pluggable Input Device for Chiral Customization of a Mobile Phone A method of attaching a removable user interface (UI) input device to a mobile phone in a handedness-neutral manner is presented. The method includes incorporating a left-side module socket and a right-side module socket into a mobile phone, such that the left-side modu... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090247223 | Rank Indicator Transmission During Discontinuous Reception A user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The UE includes a processor configured to transmit a rank indicator (RI) using one of an assigned periodic RI reporting resource that precisely aligns with the start on an on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation mode ... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090247225 | Data Entry Systems A data entry system includes a hand held data entry unit having a reading sensor for sensing commands and/or data, rewritable storage for storing information relating to selectable items, a controller (a microprocessor or other processing circuitry) and a display screen... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090247082 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises a wireless communication device configured to conduct wireless communication with an external apparatus, a switch connected to a radio frequency circuit of the wireless communication device, and configured t... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090247226 | Printing Content using a Mobile Device A mobile telecommunications device for printing bill data on a print medium is disclosed. The mobile telecommunications device includes a sensor module for sensing data encoded on a surface of the print medium. A print media identifier is determined from the sensed data... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090247227 | Retrieving Contact Details Using A Printed Medium A method is disclosed of retrieving contact details using a print medium. The method determines a print media identifier from the print medium using a sensor module of a mobile telecommunications device. The print media identifier is linked to the contact details. The m... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090233548 | SKIN-BASED INFORMATION TRANSFER BETWEEN MOBILE DEVICES A first mobile terminal may transmit wireless network setup information to a second mobile terminal via a skin-based communication network. A wireless network connection may be established based on information included in the wireless network setup message. A data item ... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090227288 | HEARING AID COMPATIBILITY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE A wireless communications device and method for providing an output signal. The device includes a control unit for controlling the operation of the wireless communications device; a selection element connected to the control unit and configured to allow selection of sev... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090228608 | Coupling and counterpoise apparatus for radio communication device The present invention provides an apparatus for coupling a radio communication device to a host system. The apparatus comprises a housing including a counterpoise operatively coupled to the radio communication device. The apparatus also comprises a signal pathway operat... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090221327 | Audio Device An audio device where an influence of magnetic field formed by an external speaker on a magnetic sensor can be reduced is provided. When a mobile phone 2 is placed on a cradle 3 so as to fit in a recess 25, an audio signal terminal 36 of the ... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090209287 | Cellular telephone with full computer The present invention provides a handheld full function but miniaturized computer selectively mateable with a hands free capable cellular telephone that is insertable into a slot in the computer for both downloading data and charging the cell phone, all in a computer mo... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090203401 | SELECTING AND PROPAGATING INFORMATION FROM PHONE TO ACCESSORY A method and apparatus for generating information at an external electronic device to be displayed on an accessory device is disclosed. The external electronic device receives registration information on at least one display area from the accessory device. The registrat... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090203402 | UTILIZING MOBILE DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY FROM REMOTE COMPUTERS Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for utilizing mobile device information and functionality from separate computing devices. A synchronization operation is performed to update a data store with communication information from a mobile device. The synchron... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090203403 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE NOTIFIER The present invention provides for a system and method for communication between a mobile communication device and an auxiliary processing interface. Remote interfacing with an auxiliary processor enables the provision of services available to a mobile communication dev... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090197644 | NETWORKING OF MULTIPLE MODE HANDHELD COMPUTING UNIT A handheld computing unit includes a MMW transceiver, a hardware section, an operating system section, and an application section. When the handheld computing unit is in a extended mode: the hardware section is operably coupled to a hardware section of an extended compu... | 08/06/2009 |